Hamsher wants to defend Clinton from that kind of attack without being mistaken for a Clinton supporter, which she is not. But she expects there may be some women, otherwise cool to Clinton, who will rally around the senator as the misogyny burns brighter.

Jamieson concurred. “This has the potential to push a lot of moderate Republican women toward her,” she said.

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And why wouldn’t the same moderate Republican women — or more pertinently moderate Democrat women — be pushed towards Obama by the repugnant (and not very subtly-coded) race-baiting and Islamo-phobia doing the rounds?

Guess we’re going to see whether playing the gender card is going to work again.

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If all men are born free, how is it that all Women are born slaves? as they must be if the being subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary Will of Men, be the perfect Condition of Slavery? and if the Essence of Freedom consists, as our Masters say it does, in having a standing Rule to live by?

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